What does the future hold for Game Freak? According to Junichi Masuda, the company wants to look into ways to help combine the real world with the virtual world. To achieve this, they plan to pay close attention to the direction of advanced technology like AR, AI, voice recognition, and more. No specific details were given on how this initiative ties into future games.

GameFreak only does the main games so they are talking about the main ones. Its probably just going to be used for side stuff like an expanded Pokemon Refresh for example. They will not change the core gameplay unless they do not want to do the Pokemon VGC competitions anymore.

You say this as if Pokémon GO isn't massively popular. And it's in good part due to its AR capabilities. (AR isn't just the thing where you overlay an image on camera footage. It's about anything where the real world is incorporated into the game world, like how you need to walk around in the real world to find Pokémon, need to flip Pokéstops, and how the weather affects Pokémon spawn rates)

Ok realistically speaking, I don't think Game Freak is that good developing tech yet.

First off, their recent 3D Pokemon games have bad graphics where they tend to have slowdown even without 3-D effect and that the textures are just bland.

Secondly, I thought Pokemon Go was already enough to experiment AR based games for them. Also, AR gaming isn't that great and not everyone is into it. Heck even Nintendo themselves stopped supporting that AR based games on the 3DS. Go figure...

And AI? Ok, what games has Game Freak done that incorporates AI? The main games? Not sure about that when there's only like four moves to choose from...

The only thing I can see them work on is voice recognition because they did have some experience with that.

That may be a simple AI, but it's one nonetheless. Also, the other trainers will never use completely ineffective moves against you (unless you trick them to do so, but if you can trick them, it means there's some AI there).